As we test disk offline/online with running fsstress, we find fsstress process is keeping running state. kworker/u32:3-262 [004] ...1 140.787471: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations: dev 8,32 needed 114 .... kworker/u32:3-262 [004] ...1 140.787471: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations: dev 8,32 needed 114 ext4_mb_new_blocks repeat: ext4_mb_discard_preallocations_should_retry(sb, ac, &seq) freed = ext4_mb_discard_preallocations ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations this_cpu_inc(discard_pa_seq); ---> freed == 0 seq_retry = ext4_get_discard_pa_seq_sum for_each_possible_cpu(__cpu) __seq += per_cpu(discard_pa_seq, __cpu); if (seq_retry != *seq) { *seq = seq_retry; ret = true; } As we see seq_retry is sum of discard_pa_seq every cpu, if ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations return zero discard_pa_seq in this cpu maybe increase one, so condition "seq_retry != *seq" have always been met. Ritesh Harjani suggest to in ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations function we only increase discard_pa_seq when there is some PA to free. Fixes: 07b5b8e1ac40 ("ext4: mballoc: introduce pcpu seqcnt for freeing PA to improve ENOSPC handling") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 132c118d12e1..ff47347012f4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -4189,7 +4189,6 @@ ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(struct super_block *sb, INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list); repeat: ext4_lock_group(sb, group); - this_cpu_inc(discard_pa_seq); list_for_each_entry_safe(pa, tmp, &grp->bb_prealloc_list, pa_group_list) { spin_lock(&pa->pa_lock); @@ -4206,6 +4205,9 @@ ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(struct super_block *sb, /* seems this one can be freed ... */ ext4_mb_mark_pa_deleted(sb, pa); + if (!free) + this_cpu_inc(discard_pa_seq); + /* we can trust pa_free ... */ free += pa->pa_free; -- 2.25.4